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Aaron Stewart-Ahn

@somebadideas
23 posts
2022-11-06
If you don't pay the $8 your tweets will be suppressed by an algorithm. Not making this shit up he said it to a room of investors yesterday & claimed this would solve hate speech. “You'll have to scroll really far to see unverified users” https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-06 View on X
9to5Mac

Twitter appears to roll out its new Blue subscription, offering a blue checkmark for $8/month, on iOS in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and UK

Twitter is officially rolling out its new Twitter Blue subscription service, which offers “blue check” verification to everyone for $8/month.

2022-07-11
Good news except now we all don't have a solid reason to delete this app https://twitter.com/...
2022-07-11 View on X
Bloomberg

Elon Musk's offer to buy Twitter likely was a joke, since he previously pretended he would take Tesla private, but he may not be able to get out of the deal

Good morning!  If you're looking to head to Bhutan anytime soon, we've got some news for you. Leigh Mc Gowran / Silicon Republic : What's going on with Elon Musk's Twitter deal? Ar...

Good news except now we all don't have a solid reason to delete this app https://twitter.com/...
2022-07-11 View on X
CNBC

SEC filing: Elon Musk notified Twitter he wants to terminate the merger agreement, claiming that Twitter didn't provide the relevant business info he requested

2022-07-10
Good news except now we all don't have a solid reason to delete this app https://twitter.com/...
2022-07-10 View on X
Bloomberg

Elon Musk's offer to buy Twitter likely was a joke, since he previously pretended he would take Tesla private, but he may not be able to get out of the deal

Programming note: Ugh, here we are again, huh?  —  Oh Elon  —  I think it is helpful to start with the big picture.

Good news except now we all don't have a solid reason to delete this app https://twitter.com/...
2022-07-10 View on X
CNBC

SEC filing: Elon Musk notified Twitter he wants to terminate the merger agreement, claiming that Twitter didn't provide the relevant business info he requested

Billionaire Elon Musk wants to end his deal to buy Twitter, according to a letter sent by a lawyer on his behalf to the company's chief legal officer Friday.

2022-07-09
Good news except now we all don't have a solid reason to delete this app https://twitter.com/...
2022-07-09 View on X
CNBC

SEC filing: Elon Musk notified Twitter he wants to end the merger agreement, claiming it didn't provide him the info he requested; stock is down 6%+ after hours

Billionaire Elon Musk wants to end his deal to buy Twitter, according to a letter sent by a lawyer on his behalf to the company's chief legal officer Friday.

2022-06-13
Story about the fired Google engineer believing one of their bots is sentient is fascinating to me only what it reveals about humans - as anyone who writes dialogue knows, humans are always making mirrors, but there's a lot of smoke involved... https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
2022-06-13 View on X
Washington Post

A look at advanced large language models, as Google places an engineer on paid leave after he became convinced that its LaMDA chatbot generator was sentient

AI ethicists warned Google not to impersonate humans.  Now one of Google's own thinks there's a ghost in the machine.

2022-04-30
Musk's big plan to monetize twitter that got his absurd loan: charging a fee for quote / embedding tweets?? That's easier to defeat than right click saving an NFT? From https://www.reuters.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-04-30 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: PayPal Mafia members, Jack Dorsey, and others who disliked Twitter's direction pushed Musk to launch a bid; Musk is dismayed that Trump is still banned

Behind the scenes, fellow billionaires and internet provocateurs bent Tesla CEO's ear; Jack Dorsey's role  —  Elon Musk unveils the Tesla Model Y in 2019.

Musk's big plan to monetize twitter that got his absurd loan: charging a fee for quote / embedding tweets?? That's easier to defeat than right click saving an NFT? From https://www.reuters.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-04-30 View on X
Platformer

At an all-hands, CEO Parag Agrawal acknowledged Twitter was vulnerable to a takeover since it had historically underachieved and asked staff to “embrace change”

CEO Parag Agrawal on five years of regrets  —  Late Thursday night, Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal announced the company …

2022-04-29
Musk's big plan to monetize twitter that got his absurd loan: charging a fee for quote / embedding tweets?? That's easier to defeat than right click saving an NFT? From https://www.reuters.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-04-29 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: during Twitter deal negotiations, Elon Musk said he would be focused on the company's bottom line and floated the idea of cutting both costs and jobs

As he negotiated a $44 billion deal to acquire Twitter Inc., Elon Musk told bankers that he would be focused …

2022-02-09
Good luck to the actress who will be in an inevitable limited series about the $3.6 billion crypto laundering grifter whose voice & rap videos makes Elizabeth Holmes look like easy mode https://twitter.com/...
2022-02-09 View on X
Washington Post

The US DOJ arrests two people in New York and seizes ~$3.6B worth of bitcoin allegedly stolen in a 2016 Bitfinex hack, its “largest financial seizure ever”

The Justice Department announced Tuesday it had seized more than $3.6 billion in bitcoin allegedly stolen as part …

2021-11-14
This is what Facebook Metaverse is gonna end up like tho https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2021-11-14 View on X
Financial Times

Internal memo: Andrew Bosworth says Meta's virtual worlds need “almost Disney levels of safety” but moderation at “meaningful scale is practically impossible”

2021-11-13
This is what Facebook Metaverse is gonna end up like tho https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2021-11-13 View on X
Financial Times

Internal memo: Andrew Bosworth says Meta's virtual worlds need “almost Disney levels of safety” but moderation at “meaningful scale is practically impossible”

from keeping a platform safe to correctly enforcing your own app store acceptance policies—seems to be impossible. https://www.ft.com/... Hannah Murphy / @mshannahmurphy : He also ...

2021-11-04
I don't want to look like a fucking Fortnite character and work in Excel while the ice caps are up to my armpits don't any of you titans of industry get this https://twitter.com/...
2021-11-04 View on X
The Verge

Microsoft will bring its mixed reality platform Mesh with 3D avatars and VR support to Teams in the first half of 2022

2021-10-05
It's fucking wild that IATSE is basically just asking corporations like Amazon, Apple and Netflix can we please have a lunch break and enough time to get home, eat and sleep for 8 hours and more than minimum wage while we make the shows & movies that earn you billions of dollars.
2021-10-05 View on X
dot.LA

In a blow to online streaming services, over 50,000 backstage movie and TV workers vote to authorize a strike after their union's demands were not met

Harrison Weber / dot.LA :

2020-07-19
In this version it really does look like one of the hacks of the century was by a bunch of bros who wasted it all on clout & bitcoin https://twitter.com/...
2020-07-19 View on X
New York Times

A person involved in Twitter hack may have gained access to Twitter's internal dashboard using credentials pinned in one of the company's Slack channels

one of whom says he lives at home with his mother ... 19 and lived in the south of England with his mother.” https://www.nytimes.com/... Eric Geller / @ericgeller : Wow. Just seein...

In this version it really does look like one of the hacks of the century was by a bunch of bros who wasted it all on clout & bitcoin https://twitter.com/...
2020-07-19 View on X
Twitter

Twitter provides an overview of what it knows about Wednesday's hack so far: how it happened, what the attackers accessed, how it reacted, and the next steps

As we've been informing via the @TwitterSupport account, on Wednesday, July 15, 2020, we detected a security incident at Twitter and took immediate action.

2020-07-18
In this version it really does look like one of the hacks of the century was by a bunch of bros who wasted it all on clout & bitcoin https://twitter.com/...
2020-07-18 View on X
Twitter

Twitter provides an overview about what it knows about Wednesday's hack so far: how it happened, what the attackers accessed, its actions, and the next steps

As we've been informing via the @TwitterSupport account, on Wednesday, July 15, 2020, we detected a security incident at Twitter and took immediate action.

In this version it really does look like one of the hacks of the century was by a bunch of bros who wasted it all on clout & bitcoin https://twitter.com/...
2020-07-18 View on X
Krebs on Security

The Twitter attack may have been perpetrated by Joseph James Connor, a 21-year-old English SIM swapper linked to a group that hijacked @jack's account last year

Twitter was thrown into chaos on Wednesday after accounts for some of the world's most recognizable public figures …

2020-05-30
I'll say this for twitter at least they're not Facebook, doubling down on its policy of allowing its platform to incite genocide like it did in Myanmar https://twitter.com/...
2020-05-30 View on X
Variety

As Twitter adds a warning to Trump's tweet advocating violence against Minneapolis protesters, so far Facebook and Instagram have left similar posts unchanged

and survival T.C. Sottek / The Verge : Twitter isn't a government, but it's the best one we've got Tweets: Daniel Kreiss / @kreissdaniel : Don't let Zuckerberg peddle a ‘free speec...